aclocal-1.16 command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

aclocal-1.16: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: aclocal-1.16: command not found

Solutions to aclocal-1.16: command not found

How To Fix aclocal-1.16: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu aclocal-1.16 is provided by automake package.

automake is:

Automake is a tool for automatically generating Makefile.in's from files called Makefile.am'.

The goal of Automake is to remove the burden of Makefile maintenance from the back of the individual GNU maintainer (and put it on the back of the Automake maintainer).

The Makefile.am' is basically a series of make’ macro definitions (with rules being thrown in occasionally). The generated `Makefile.in’s are compliant with the GNU Makefile standards.

Automake 1.16 fails to work in a number of situations that Automake 1.11, and 1.15 did, so some previous versions are available as separate packages.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install automake

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install automake.

sudo apt -y install automake

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install automake

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix aclocal-1.16 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.